Survey #253—Full Response from Kathy
| Which of the following statements describe your living situation with respect to a dining room and dining-room furniture? |
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| Please complete the following statement: “Members of my household and I eat most of our meals _____.” | We eat our meals at the kitchen table 5 days a week and eat in front of TV on the weekends. |
| Please complete the following statement: “When I want to entertain guests for a meal, we usually eat _____.” | If I have a friend over, we eat at kitchen table. If we have more than one person over (rarely), we eat at dining room table. |
| What feelings or memories—positive, negative, or in-between—does the phrase “dining room” evoke for you? How have your attitudes, beliefs, or practices around dining and entertaining changed over time? What impact, if any, do dining and entertaining have on the clutter in your space? | I never had a dining room growing up, so when we bought our house, which had a DR, I guess my feeling was "I'm supposed to entertain." Turns out, I don't enjoy cooking for or entertaining others. (If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't buy a DR table. I would make the DR a library.) 🙂 We had parents over a few times, but then they became too old to travel or preferred us to visit them anyway. Our friends were fine with eating out, which I always preferred as it gave me a break from cooking. A few years ago, I became vegan and only have one other friend who is mostly vegan. But she is hypervigilant about what she eats due to autoimmune disease, so I can only make salads for her. I use my DR table for cutting out patterns and doing puzzles on. I do have some boxes and things in the DR that I need to make room for elsewhere, but at this point in my life, it wouldn't bother me to have people come at eat in my DR ... Take me as I am, and don't ask for meat! 🙂 |
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